Florence Bailey (1863 - 1948)

A nature writer and ornithologist, Florence Bailey popularized natural history and wrote a number of books about birds and ornithology, including several popular bird guides. Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey was a US ornithologist and nature writer. She organized early Audubon Society chapters and was an activist for bird protection. She wrote what is considered the first bird field guide in the modern tradition, Birds Through an Opera-Glass, published in 1890. Her extensive field work in the US West, often with her husband Vernon Bailey, was documented in several books, chief among them Handbook of Birds of the Western United States and The Birds of New Mexico. source: Wikipedia

Known for
Birds Through an Opera Glass (1890), first modern field guide for birdwatchers

Work in bird conservation

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